Meadows Field in April 2024

82.8%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 169 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 82.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.4% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 2.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 72.2% of the time (169 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, national aviation system 34% and air carrier 21%.

On time 83.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.4%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.6%

Every scheduled departure from BFL in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	82.8%	—	83.5%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.4%	—	81.3%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.4%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	14.9 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	8	19,406
Scheduled departures	169	—	2,927	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	105	62%	85.7%	3.6 min	1.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	60	36%	80.0%	-2.5 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	4	2%	75.0%	2.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	79	86.1%	8.8 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	30	96.7%	-20.6 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	30	83.3%	-11.3 min	3.3%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	30	63.3%	15.6 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	20.7%	33.6%	382
Late-arriving aircraft	39.4%	41.0%	729
National Aviation System	34.3%	20.0%	634
Extreme weather	5.6%	5.1%	103
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

1,848 delay minutes on 26 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left BFL on time in April 2024?

82.8% of 169 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BFL · methodology · corrections.